... . Social science as a profession developed as an academic discipline largely through the funding of corporations that recognised its value for training management cadre sensitive to population control issues. Parallel to eugenics, which essentially saw control in terms of depopulation, intensive research was devoted to manipulating indigenous social structures in the same way marketing was elaborated as a system of surveillance and intervention to control the population of industrialised societies. This was fostered by the process of professionalisation, especially in medicine and journalism. The outgrowth of professionalising healthcare and information flows drew directly on the experience of missionaries: the gospel and medical mission both had ostensibly civilian 'developmental' agendas. However they were actually techniques for social reengineering. ...

... up. The UK does export a lot of arms but its position as a major player in the field is under threat and in decline. Most of all, the UK is no longer a world military power but merely a cash-strapped proxy for the US, dependent upon US weapons systems and intelligence from the US-dominated global surveillance system. (I don't take seriously recent newspapers stories about the UK creating a defensive missile screen and building - or acquiring - new aircraft carriers.) He looks at the post-war Anglo-American relationship, and the initial experience of the Labour Government since it took office last year and shows that nothing has changed - because ...

... that Montagu had seduced his son whilst they were both at Eton. The book ends with Losey surveying the smouldering ruins of Nettlefold Studios, supposedly torched by the CIA in an attempt to demonstrate to the FBI that it could carry out acts of sabotage with the best of them, and also to warn Losey that he was still under their surveillance. (This is one of the author's several touches of artistic license - the Studios continued to operate until 1961 and were demolished shortly afterwards.) The incident, which supposedly destroyed the negative of one of his films - another touch of artistic license: Losey made a number of films at Nettlefold Studios, but none of his negatives ...

... But the way Pilger states it suggests (a ) that the British government knew the SAS were in Vietnam, for which there is no evidence; and (b ) that the government supported the US war in Vietnam; and on this the evidence is still ambiguous. It is true that British components of the Anglo-American intelligence and surveillance system, notably some GCHQ bases in the Far East, provided intelligence to the US. But despite a great deal of arm-twisting from LBJ, and despite Wilson's utter dependence on the US at this point for financial assistance to defend the value of the pound, Harold Wilson refused to send even a token force to Vietnam. ...

... many striking phrases. On the opening page he refers to the American major media as presstitutes – a nice joke, though he didn't coin the word. The NSA is the 'National Stasi Agency', another nice joke but not really justified: the Stasi were the secret police, more akin to the FBI; the NSA is just a surveillance agency. The following paragraphs are just some of the many I noted and may give a sense of Roberts' writing if he's new to you. 'Washington has destroyed the sovereignty of Great Britain, all of Europe and Japan and permits none of the countries in its empire of captive nations to have a foreign policy independent of Washington. ...

... Judith Exner, Hersh claims that JFK was regularly in receipt of payoffs from arms industry lobbyists. Here, of perhaps wider significance than Hersh allows, was the break-in at Exner's LA apartment by I. B. Hale, head of General Dynamics corporate security on August 7, 1962, which was observed by the 24 hour FBI surveillance on the president's mistress. Hersh admits being unable to establish how the ailing arms corporation had come across this information which, it is claimed, enabled pressure in favour of the flawed TFX combat aircraft against the wishes of much of the defence community. Given Hale's FBI background, a likely source would have been the Bureau. Hale's prominence ...

... the law of confidence or the OSA to silence the press and prevent the disclosure of incompetence or iniquity by elements of the state. Tony Geraghty described his arrest and referred to the 'consistent harassment, pressure and bullying' which he and his publisher, HarperCollins, had been subjected to over the The Irish War, which included information about computer surveillance methods used in Northern Ireland. The internet allowed people living in repressive regimes, or rebel groups, to get information out whilst keeping their identities and locations secret by the use of anonymising software and encryption. Rohan Jayasekera, Web Manager at Index on Censorship, said this could be a tool for social change in places where free speech ...

... lines the following appeared on John Young's Cryptome site a month later:(2 ) 'It might interest your readers to understand the aggressive US tactics used to win the Lockheed F-16 deal with Poland last week. Information from an official translator who has first-hand knowledge of various meetings... an aggressive campaign, including electronic surveillance to ensure that Lockheed, rather than Swedish/French rivals, won an order for fighter jets. This campaign included....if Lockheed's offer was not successful, the US would block or substantially reduce World Bank and International Finance Corporation loan/assistance package worth an estimated $1 .4 billion (measured over 2003- ...

... . Nearly 40 years have now passed since Hofstadter's article first appeared, and in that time the world has been plagued by terrorism, assassination, genocide and war. Parapolitical structures headquartered in caves have laid waste Wall Street, killing thousands of Americans. Constitutional protections have been suspended, superseded or exempted to death, while a new regime of surveillance unfolds in the heartland. Surely, it is time that we put an end to the name calling, and begin to follow the evidence. All of the evidence. Wherever it goes. Notes 1 Journal of Popular Culture, Vol. 36, Issue 2. 2 See 'The Secret Life of Jim Jones: A Parapolitical Fugue' ...

... purchased from the Government Printing Office at < http:// bookstore.gpo.gov >. The not so free Freedom under fire: dissent in post-9 /11 America, a report by the American Civil Liberties Union, describes how federal and state government officials, aided and abetted by the police, have used censorship, surveillance, detention, and force to clamp down on dissent since the terrorist attacks of 9/11. Protesters in various parts of the country have been beaten, maced, and faced horseback charges. FBI agents have also spied on professors and students at the University of Massachusetts. The Report is available online at < http:// ...